AN IMPERIAL PIONEER.
CECIL RHODES AS SEEN BY HIS PRIVATE SECRETARY. Br Tcleeraph—Press Asaoclatiou-Oopyrishi "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. London, September 22. Tho "Life of Cecil Rhodes," by his confidential secretary, has been published. It shows that the shades of Caesar, Napoleon,. and Clivo haunted the highways of his mind. He considered himself like Hadrian. A friend once surprised Mr. Rhodes standing and stroking his nose before a portrait of that Emperor. He carried "Tho Meditations of Marcus Aurclius" always. Gihbou was favourite reading. Rhodes had the authorities quoted in "The Decline and Fall" translated absolutely unabridged. Tho books were fittingly bound, uniformly in red.
Mr. Rhodes was a valiant trencherman ; ho would cut great hunks of meat off .a joint. Ho liked ehainpagno in a tumblor, and' would take five or six glasses of kummel after meals. Ho smoked innumerable cigarettes until bedtime.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1863, 24 September 1913, Page 7
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143AN IMPERIAL PIONEER. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1863, 24 September 1913, Page 7
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